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The History of Ford Motor CompanyThe History of Ford Motor Company
Ford was launched in a converted factory in 1903 with $28,000 in cash from
twelve investors, most notably John and Horace Dodge, who would later found the
Dodge Brothers Motor Vehicle Company. Henry Ford was 40 years old when he
founded the Ford Motor Company, which would go on to become one of the largest
and most profitable companies in the world, as well as being one of the few to
survive the Great Depression. The largest family-controlled company in the
world, the Ford Motor Company has been in continuous family control for over 100
years.
The first Ford factory on Bagley Street, Detroit. During its early years, the company produced a range of vehicles designated,
chronologically, from the Ford Model A (1903) to the Model K and Model S (Ford's last right-hand steering model) of 1907. The K, Ford's
first six-cylinder model, was known as "the gentleman's roadster" and "the silent cyclone", and sold for US$2800; by contrast, around
that time, the Enger 40 was priced at US$2000, the Colt Runabout US$1500, the high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout US$650, Western's Gale
Model A US$500, and the Success hit the amazingly low US$250.ess hit the amazingly low US$250.
The next year, Henry Ford introduced the Model T. Earlier models were produced at a rate of only a few a day at a rented factory on Mack
Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, with groups of two or three men working on each car from components made to order by other companies (what
would come to be called an "assembled car").
The first Model Ts were built at the Piquette Road Manufacturing Plant, the first company-owned factory. In its first full year of
production, 1909, about 18,000 Model Ts were built. As demand for the car grew, the company moved production to the much larger Highland
Park Plant, and in 1911, the first year of operation there, 69,762 Model Ts were produced, with 170,211 in 1912. By 1913, the company
had developed all of the basic techniques of the assembly line and mass production. Ford introduced the world's first moving assembly
line that year, which reduced chassis assembly time from 12½ hours in October to 2 hours 40 minutes (and ultimately 1 hour 33
minutes),[8] and boosted annual output to 202,667 units that year. After a Ford ad promised profit-sharing if sales hit 300,000 between
August 1914 and August 1915, sales in 1914 reached 308,162, and 501,462 in 1915; by 1920, production would exceed one million a year.
Ford Motor Company became the innovator of assembly line production. Their employment standards became a model for manufacturing to
this day.
These innovations were hard on employees, and turnover of workers was very high. In January 1914, Ford solved the employee turnover
problem by doubling pay to $5 a day, cutting shifts from nine hours to an eight hour day for a 5 day work week (which also increased
sales; a line worker could buy a T with less than four months' pay), and instituting hiring practices that identified the best workers,
including disabled people considered unemployable by other firms.
Employee turnover plunged, productivity soared, and with it, the cost per vehicle plummeted. Ford cut prices again and again and
invented the system of franchised dealers who were loyal to his brand name. Wall Street had criticized Ford's generous labor practices
when he began paying workers enough to buy the products they made.
Henry Ford is reported to have said, "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black." Before the
assembly line, Ts had been available in a variety of colors, including red, blue, and green, but not black. Now, paint had become a
production bottleneck; only Japan Black dried quickly enough, and not until Duco lacquer appeared in 1926 would other colors reappear on
the T.
In 1915, Henry Ford went on a peace mission to Europe aboard a ship, joining other pacifists in efforts to stop World War I. This led to
an increase in his personal popularity. Ford would subsequently go on to support the war effort with the Model T becoming the
underpinnings for Allied military vehicles, like the Ford 3-Ton M1918 tank, and the 1916 ambulance.
During the great depression, Ford in common with other manufacturers, responded to the collapse in motor sales by reducing the scale of
their operations and laying off workers.
By 1932, the unemployment rate in Detroit had risen to 30% with thousands of families facing real hardship. Although Ford did assist a
small number of distressed families with loans and parcels of land to work, the majority of the thousands of unskilled workers who were
laid off were left to cope on their own. However, Henry Ford angered many by making public statements that the unemployed should do more
to find work for themselves. During the Great Depression Ford's wages may have seemed great to his employees but many of the rules of
the factories were very harsh and strict.
The Ford Motor Company played a pivotal role in the allied victory during World War I and World War II. As a pacifist, Henry Ford had
said war was a waste of time, and did not want to profit from it. He was concerned the Nazis during the 1930s might nationalize his
factories in Germany.
Those were tense times for American companies doing business in Europe. Ford established a close collaboration with Germany's Nazi
government before the war-- In the spring of 1939, the Nazis assumed day to day control of Ford factories in Germany. However, Ford's
Dearborn headquarters continued to maintain 52% ownership over the factories. Ford factories contributed significantly to the buildup of
Germany's armed forces. Ford negotiated a resource-sharing agreement that allowed the German military to access scarce supplies,
particularly rubber.
Ford production was important to Nazi forces as well: roughly one-third of
the German Army's trucks, which played a crucial role in Germany's blitzkrieg strategy, were produced by Ford.
After the US declared war in December 1941, Ford could no longer communicate
directly with its factories in Germany. However, indirect communications continued, in at least one case. Robert Schmidt, the Nazi
manager of the Cologne Ford plant, traveled to Portugal in 1943 in order to consult with Ford officials there. The Treasury Department
also investigated Ford for alleged collaboration with German-run Ford plants in occupied France, but did not find conclusive evidence.
After the war, Schmidt and other Nazi-era managers kept their jobs with Ford's German division.
In the United Kingdom, Ford built a new factory in Trafford Park, Manchester during WW2 where over 34,000 Rolls-Royce Merlin aero
engines were completed by a workforce trained from scratch.
In the 1950s, Ford introduced the iconic Thunderbird in 1955 and the Edsel brand automobile line in 1958, following a US$250 million
dollar research and marketing campaign, which had failed to ask questions crucial for the marque's success. Edsel was cancelled after
less than 27 months in the marketplace in November 1960. The corporation bounced back from the failure of the Edsel by introducing its
compact Falcon in 1960 and the Mustang in 1964. By 1967, Ford of Europe was established.
Current Ford CEO Alan Mulally, who was hired by William Clay Ford, Jr. to restructure the company.In December 2006, Ford announced it
would mortgage all assets, including factories and equipment, office property, intellectual property (patents and blue oval trademarks),
and its stakes in subsidiaries, to raise $23.4 billion in cash. The secured credit line is expected to finance product development
during the restructuring through 2009, as the company expects to burn through $17 billion in cash before turning a profit. The action
was unprecedented in the company's 103 year history
The Ford Motor Company
The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury brands, Ford
also owns Volvo Cars in Sweden, and a small stake in Mazda in Japan and Aston Martin in the UK. Ford's former UK subsidiaries Jaguar and
Land Rover were sold to Tata Motors of India in March 2008. Ford has agreed to sell Volvo to Geely Automobile in a deal expected to be
completed in the third quarter of 2010.
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